Voice: Jay Coen Gilbert
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Guest Commentary: Who or What Am I Most Resisting?
A citizen's prayer for our fractured times, from a local leader of the B Corp movement
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Guest Commentary: An Open Letter to My Fellow Jews
The opportunity for moral courage in the Israel-Hamas war, from a local leader of the B Corps movement
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Guest Commentary: Incredibly Affirming and Wrenchingly Sad
A few White men at the March on Washington, from a leader of the B Corp movement
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Guest Commentary: The End of Affirmative Action and the Myth of the Self-Made Entrepreneur
The co-founder of AND 1 and the B Corp Movement on what the Supreme Court majority doesn’t seem to get: There’s such a thing as racism without racists
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Guest Commentary: Why I Support a Reparations Task Force
A local entrepreneur/anti-racist organizer on why he favors City Council’s proposal to study what reparations might look like for Black Philadelphians
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Guest Commentary: Ron DeSantis and the Politics of Dog Whistling
The Florida governor announced his presidential candidacy yesterday. A local businessman/philanthropist wonders, what do you think about what he is saying?
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Women’s Choice, Men’s Responsibility
Until the leaked draft decision that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade, I had never told anyone — except my wife.
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Guest Commentary: “What Do You Think We Should Do?”
The co-founder of the B Corp movement has a challenge—and an invitation—for his fellow White men in these racially challenging times
By Jay Coen Gilbert